APES- Topic 5: Land & Water Use

(mainly Forestry Issues, Agriculture, Meat Production,Fishing, & Mining)

The Tragedy of the Commons

“when publicly accessible resources are open to unregulated exploration, they tend to become overused, damaged, and depleted”

causes: individuals profit but all share costs of exploitation, idea of getting “fair share”, seeing a resource as vast, no immediate penalty

Deforestation

Old Growth Forests

Secondary Growth Forests

Clear-Cutting

Slash & Burn Method

Sustainable Forestry

Selective Logging

Strip Cutting

Plantation Forests

Low Intensity Fires

Prescribed Burns

Selective Cutting

Green Revolution

Monoculture

Industrialized Agriculture

Plantation Agriculture

Traditional or Subsistence Agriculture

Slash-&-Burn Agriculture

Furrow Irrigation

Flood Irrigation

Spray Irrigation

Drip Irritation

Soil Salinization

Conservation Tillage/ No-Till Farming

Contour Plowing

Terracing

Shelter Belts

Cover crops

Crop Rotation

Intercropping

Green manure & compost

limestone

Integrates Pest Management (IPM)

Concentrated Animial Feeding Operations (CAFO’s)

Manure Lagoons

Free Range Grazing

Overgrazing

Fisheries

Long-line Fishing

Drift Nets

Trawling

Purse Sein

Sonar

Addressing Overfishing

Addreessing ByCatch

Aquaculture

smelting

acid mine drainage

open pit mining

mountain top removal

placer mining

subsurface mining

mine reclamation